Last reviewed and updated 28 July 2023

Privacy Policy

This website is operated by Orange Sputnik s.r.o.

The Orange Sputnik company and its affiliated entities (collectively, “Orange Sputnik,” “we,” “our,” and/or “us”) are entirely committed to protecting the privacy of people who browse and use our websites, including developerasservice.com, or services that link to this privacy policy. This privacy statement (“Privacy Statement”) describes how we may gather, use, and disclose personal data from Users of our Services (“Users”) or their devices. Any information pertaining to a known or identifiable individual is referred to as “personal information” if you are based in the European Economic Area (“EEA”) or the United Kingdom (“UK”). You consent to the data gathering, use, disclosure, and handling practices described in this Privacy Policy by using or accessing our Services. In addition to the Privacy Policy, our Terms of Service also apply the Use of our Services.

Information we collect

As outlined below, we collect a variety of confidential information from or about you or your gadgets from different sources.

If we need your personal information to provide our services or if we are compelled by law to collect it, you might not be able to use our services if you do not provide it when requested.

A. Information You Provide to Us

Registration Information. We will obtain your first and last name, email address, the content of any messages or attachments you may send to us, and any other information you voluntarily choose to provide if you register for one of our talks, meetups, competitions, hackathons, workshops, or other events, including those that are hosted on third-party websites.

Communications. We could learn more about you personally if you get in touch with us directly. When you reach us through our website, for instance, we might get your first and last name, email address, phone number, the content of any messages or attachments you submit to us, as well as any other details you choose to include. Your first and last name, email address, and regions of interest will be collected from you if you choose to subscribe to notifications from the Orange Sputnik blog. To provide a better user experience and enhance our Services, we may track whether you open the communications we send you.

Careers. If you choose to apply for an opening with us, you can upload your CV and contact details online. Your personal information, details about your most recent work, and any other information you choose to include with your application and on your resume will all be collected by us as part of your job application. We will collect the data you provide to us through a third-party network (like LinkedIn) if you register for a job with us using the relevant platform.

B. Data we collect from you when you use our Services

Your Devices. When you make use of our Services, we learn a variety of details about the hardware and software you are using, including your IP address, web browser, operating system, internet traffic data, service usage data, and unique device identifiers.

Usage Data. When you use our services, we automatically receive information about your interactions with them, such as log files, performance logs, diagnostic reports, the pages or other content you view, the searches you conduct, the pages you request, the websites you visited before using our services, and the dates, times, and durations of your visits. This information helps us better understand how you use our services and helps us make them better.

Location data. We determine the approximate geographical position of your device and the regions from which our customers are accessing our Services when you use them. Your approximate physical location may be revealed, for instance, by your IP address.

Data derived from Cookies and related technologies. Cookies may be used by us and our third-party vendors to gather personal data. Cookies are tiny text and numeric files that we keep on your browser or computer’s hard drive. They hold data that is written to the hard disk of your computer. We collect data regarding your viewing habits from cookies, trackers, invisible tags, and related technologies (collectively, “Cookies”) in order to separate you from other Users of our Services. This improves your experience while using our Services and gives us a chance to make them more effective. Cookies can be used for efficiency evaluation, gathering data for analytics on how users interact with our services. They can also be used to manage functionality, allowing us to streamline the user’s experience by, for instance, identifying language preferences, and log-in information. On our Services, we might also employ pixel trackers and web beacons. These are very small graphic pictures that are embedded in our emails or on web sites that help us figure out if you’ve done something particular. An overview of the different Cookie kinds that we and third parties may use to gather confidential data is provided below.

Strictly Necessary Cookies. Some Cookies are absolutely essential to provide you with our Services. Without this kind of Cookie, we cannot offer you our Services.
Functional Cookies. To help us identify you when you use our Services again, functional cookies are used. Because of this, we can customize our material for you and keep track of your preferences. For instance, we use practical Cookies for remembering the language or location you selected.
Analytical and Performance Cookies. To run, manage, and enhance our Services, we also use cookies for website statistics. To collect and process certain analytics data on our behalf, we may use our own cookies or those of third parties, including but not limited to pi.pardot.com, pardot.com, linkedin.com, www.linkedin.com, ads.linkedin.com, google.com, doubleclick.net, jobvite.com, disqus.com. These service providers might also compile data regarding how you use other websites, applications, and online tools.

We will acquire your consent to use Cookies if required by appropriate laws. More information about your rights and choices, as well as how to prevent the use of certain Cookies, can be found in the part Your Rights and Choices below.

C. Data we receive from third-parties

Third-Party Services. You may also share pictures, comments, or reviews on our third-party sites, such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, or YouTube. If you do so, or if you provide information to our ads contained on third-party platforms in any other way, we and other users may be able to access the personal information you provide by means of these third-party platforms.

Partners. We may obtain extra personal information about you from third parties, such as data or marketing partners, and merge it with other personal information we have on file for you.

The way we utilizing the Data we collect

We use the personal information we collect for the following purposes:

To provide, maintain, improve, and enhance our Services;
To communicate with you, to provide you with updates and other information about our Services, to provide you with information you request, to react to comments and inquiries, and to provide other customer assistance;
For marketing reasons, such as creating and distributing commercial and promoting materials that you may find helpful, pertinent, valuable, or otherwise interesting;
To customize your experience on our Services, such as by displaying tailored information;
To perform research in order to comprehend and analyze how you use our Services, as well as to create new goods, services, and features;
To depersonalize and aggregate information gathered via our Services for commercial reasons;
To detect and prevent fraud, as well as to respond to potential trust and safety issues;
For compliance purposes, including enforcing our legal rights, or as required by applicable laws and regulations or requested by any judicial process or governmental agency;
For other purposes for which we provide specific notice at the time the personal information is collected.

Legal grounds for European Data processing

If you live in the area known as the European Economic Area (EEA) or the United Kingdom (UK), we will only handle your personal information if we have a legitimate “legal basis,” such as those listed below.

Consent. You consented to your permission for your confidential information to be used. For example, we may handle your personal information in order to send you marketing messages, to use your personal information in future applicant screening attempts, or to use Cookies if you have given us your permission.
Contractual Necessity. We require sensitive details from you in order to provide you with our Services. We may, for example, need to handle your confidential information in order to reply to your queries or to carry out the employment process.
Compliance with a Legal Obligation. We are required by law to use your personal information. We may, for example, use your personal information for complying with tax, labor, and accounting responsibilities.
Legitimate Interests. We or a third party have a legal right to use your confidential information. We have a legitimate interest, in particular, in using your personal information for our Service development and internal analytics purposes, to exercise and defend potential legal claims, to transfer information within our group of undertakings, to verify the adequacy of your qualifications, and to otherwise improve the safety, security, and performance of our Services. We only handle your personal information when our or a third party’s reasonable interests do not outweigh your rights and interests.

How we share the collected Data

We may share personal information about you that we gather as outlined below or as otherwise revealed to you at the time of collection.

Consent. We may disclose personal information from or about you or your devices with your permission.

Partners and Affiliates. Any personal information we receive may be shared with our partners, companies, and associates, including Orange Sputnik Group entities, for any of the objectives outlined in this Privacy Policy.

Vendors and Service Providers. Any confidential information we obtain may be shared with contractors, vendors, service providers, and other third parties kept in conjunction with the provision of our Services.

Analytics Partners. Certain analytics data may be collected and processed using analytics platforms such as Google Analytics. These services may also gather information about the websites, apps, and internet resources you visit. You can learn more about Google’s policies and opt out of them by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser extension.

Advertising Partners. We collaborate with third-party advertising partners to show you advertisements that we believe will be beneficial to you. These advertising partners may set and access their own Cookies, pixel tags, and similar technologies on our Services, as well as gather or have access to information about you that they may collect over time and across various online services. Members of the Network Advertising Initiative (https://optout.networkadvertising.org/) and the Digital Advertising Alliance (https://optout.aboutads.info/) are among our advertising partners. If you do not want to receive tailored ads from member companies, please visit their opt-out sites to learn how to opt out of getting web-based personalized advertising from member companies.

As Required by Law and Similar Disclosures. We may access, preserve, and disclose personal information about you if we believe it is necessary or appropriate to: (a) comply with law enforcement requests and legal proceedings, such as a court order or subpoena; (b) respond to your requests; or (c) protect the rights, property, or safety of you, us, or others.

Merger, Sale, or Other Asset Transfers. In connection with the consideration, negotiation, or completion of a corporate transaction in which we are acquired by or merged with another entity, or we sell, liquidate, or transfer all or part of our business or assets, we may disclose and transfer your personal information to service providers, advisors, potential transactional partners, or other third parties.

Your rights and choices

Your European Privacy Rights. If you are located in the EEA or the UK, you have the additional rights described below:

You have the right to request access to the personal information we keep about you, to update or fix inaccuracies in your personal information, to restrict or object to the processing of your personal information, to have your personal information anonymized or deleted, as appropriate, and to exercise your right to data portability to easily transfer your personal information to another company. Furthermore, you have the right to file a report with a supervisory body, including in your nation of residence, workplace, or location where an event occurred.
You may revoke any prior permission you gave to us for the handling of your personal information at any time and without charge. We will follow your preferences in the future, and this will not impact the lawfulness of the processing prior to your withdrawal of consent.

Your California Privacy Rights. If you are a resident of California, you have the right to know and access the personal information we have collected about you, to delete personal information, to opt out of the sale of personal information, and to not be discriminated against for exercising these rights. Please see our California Resident Privacy Notice for additional information and statements about California citizens’ rights.

You may exercise these rights by reaching us using the information provided at the conclusion of this Privacy Statement. We may require reasonable details to verify your identification before fulfilling your request. Bear in mind that each of these rights has exceptions and limitations, and that while any changes you make will be reflected in active user databases instantly or within a reasonable period of time, we may retain personal information for backups, archiving, fraud and abuse prevention, analytics, legal compliance, or where we otherwise reasonably believe we have a legitimate reason to do so.

Marketing Communications. Orange Sputnik may approach you for marketing and campaign updates if you provide them with your email address. You will be subscribed to our automatic campaign update mailings when you become a Orange Sputnik customer. If you do not want to receive emails from Orange Sputnik in the future, you can withdraw at any moment. To unsubscribe from an email group, select one of the three options:

Unsubscribe using the link at the end of the email that you got;
Request to be unsubscribed from automated marketing and/or campaign update texts from your Customer Success Team or our Customer Support;
Unsubscribe from Orange Sputnik automated campaign update mailings by going to our unsubscribe website. We will update your email contact choices.

Please be advised that if you are a Orange Sputnik customer, a member of our Customer Success Team may continue to directly reach you via email for routine or educational reasons, including follow-up communications involving Orange Sputnik and yourself business transactions. Such communications are not deemed commercial email under the law.

How to Block Cookies. You can disable Cookies by configuring your internet browser to disable some or all Cookies. However, if you configure your browser to prevent all Cookies (including critical Cookies), you may be unable to access all or portions of our Services. By using our Services, you agree to our use of Cookies and the processing of personal information gathered via such Cookies in compliance with this Privacy Policy. You can revoke your permission at any moment by deleting the Cookies that have been set and disabling Cookies in your browser, as described below. You can configure your browser to prevent or alert you when you receive a Cookie, delete Cookies, or use your browser’s anonymous usage option to access our Services. To learn more about how to change or modify your browser options, please consult your browser’s guidelines or help page. If you do not agree to our use of Cookies or other similar technologies that store information on your computer, please adjust your browser settings appropriately. You should be aware that if you do not accept Cookies or these technologies, some features of our Services may not work correctly. You will be requested to agree to certain Cookies and similar technologies before we use or place them on your computer or other device, as required by relevant legislation.

Third Parties

Our Services may include connections to websites, goods, or services that are not owned or operated by us. We are not responsible for these third companies’ privacy policies. Please bear in mind that this Privacy Policy does not cover your actions on these third-party sites or any personal information you disclose to them. We are not liable for the privacy policies or content of third-party websites. If you have any concerns about how these other sites use your confidential information, please contact them immediately. We recommend that you study their privacy policies before giving them with any personal information.

Retention

We take steps to remove your personal information or keep it in a form that does not allow us to recognize you when it is no longer required for the purposes for which we handle it, unless we are required by law to keep your personal information for an extended length of time. We evaluate various variables when deciding the precise retention period, such as the sort of service given to you, the nature and length of our connection with you, and mandatory retention periods provided by law and the statute of limitations.

Data Security

We use technological and organizational measures to enhance the security of the personal information we keep to make reasonable efforts to secure your personal information. For example, in accordance with ISO 27001:2013 standards, we have a comprehensive information security program in place to safeguard confidential information from unauthorized access, alteration, exposure, or destruction. Policies and procedures for data categorization, data encryption, passwords, access limits, network segmentation, vulnerability scanning, warnings, tracking and monitoring, anti-malware, and employee training are among our security measures. However, because no computer transmission or storage of personal information can be guaranteed to be completely private, we cannot ensure the confidentiality or privacy of your personal information.

Children’s Privacy

We do not intentionally gather, maintain, or use personal information from minors under the age of 16, and no portion of our Services is geared toward children. If you discover that a minor has given us personal information in breach of this Privacy Policy, please notify us at [email protected].

International Visitors

Our Services are hosted in the European Union and are meant for European Union visitors. If you choose to use our Services from the United States or other parts of the world where the laws regulating data gathering and use vary from those in the European Union, please be aware that you are moving your personal information outside of those areas to the European Union for keeping and processing. We may transfer personal information to the European Union and other third countries in accordance with European Commission-approved Standard Contractual Clauses, as necessary to provide the Services you have asked from us, or with your consent. Also, in conjunction with data storing and processing, meeting your requests, and running our Services, we may move your data from the EU to other nations or regions. You agree to such transfer, storage, and processing by submitting any information, including personal information, on or through our Services. Please reach us using the details provided below for more information on the transfers.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

This Privacy Statement may be updated from time to time. Any changes to the Privacy Policy will be posted on this website, and the new version will be valid as of the last modified date. If we make significant changes to how we use or share personal information gathered from you through our Services, we will try to tell you via our Services, email, or other methods.